AN eight-year-old boy suffered a terrifying ordeal when thieves drove away in his father's car - with him in it....

AN eight-year-old boy suffered a terrifying ordeal when thieves drove away in his father's car - with him in it.

Two men kicked the boy's father out of the car on a test drive and then sped off with the boy in the back seat.

The 29-year-old father, who feared his son was being abducted, watched in horror - but the pair bundled the boy out of the Subaru Impreza Turbo further down the road and fled in the car.

The raiders had arranged to meet the owner in the car park of Coles furniture shop in Leicester Road, Bedworth, on Saturday afternoon.

The seller and his son went for a test-drive with the would-be buyers at about 5.10pm and one of them drove the vehicle along the A444 to junction three of the M6 at Bedworth and then back towards Nuneaton.

In a lay-by before the Bermuda Park island in Nuneaton, one of the thieves dragged the man from the car and then drove off with the boy in the back seat.

After about 100 metres, the boy was also bundled out of the vehicle - valued at around #12,000. The pair then drove off towards Griff Island, Nuneaton.

The boy was not hurt but badly shaken and his father sustained minor grazes.

A Warwickshire police spokesman said: "Both the father and son were extremely upset by the incident. The father understandably feared at one point that it was an abduction.

"We are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the men in the vicinity of Coles furniture shop or anyone who may have seen the Subaru to contact us."